Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-04-29

handsome young girl named Annie Lynn
OF Sherry, Wis, on the charge OF illegiti.2
the officers since November. The affair
was afterward} adjusted by q marriage.
East Ohio and the Border Of West Virgins
ia were ravaged by q cyclone. The loss OF
life Was happily small, but the damage to
property exceeds a million. f ts$ +
About twenty-five Chicago creditors OF
Clapp & Davis, the wholesale jewelers., who
failed for $3.50, 900 held an indignat ton
meeting at which there were many angry
intimations that the firms alleged collapse
was bare-faced swindle. r., Ia. SI'.
Asyndicate has been formed in Califor-
mia to control the red wood forests. This
is big thing all around. The trees are
monsters, and it takes Inillionaires, to con-
troll them. Last year the cut'was 22s,-
769, 251 feet, worth in San Francisco So
600, 600. one third OF which is profit.
DR.. Bruitt, on trial at Dodgevi,le, Wis,
for poisoning his wife, was found dead in
his cell, and it ia thought he poisoned him
self to escape the state prison. The doc
tor was said to have killed his vile to Sc
cure $4,000 insurance on her life. This
note was found on him: II feel as if was
about to take a change Of venue to the SUI
prem,e9 Judge on high. II so, the Judge is
just the more, inclined to mercy. am
feeling very badly. My heart seems to have
great work to-day. Don't let them remove
me to the Jail to die" DR.. Bruitt was a
leading physician and politician.
Yellowstone Journal: Sheriff Ryan de-
parted with his prisoner bound for Sun
dance. The route taken by the sheriff
would seem to be a long one; Miles City to
St.. Paul, St. Paul to the railroad terminus
in the Black Hills and thence by stage to
Sundance, distance in all OF nearly 1000
Sc
across country from here.
Central Dakota Anniversary Association
OF Odd Fellows will hold a celebration al
Miller April 26. A great many lodges and
fine bands will be there.
A. c. Lea, a saloonkeeper OF Fargo, drew
SIS, 600 in the last drawing Of the Louisi-
ana State Lottery.
The Delaware senate passed the house
bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale
OF all kinds OF imitation and adulturated
butter.
Since the death OF Bishop Lee, Bishop
John Williams, OF the diocese of Connecti-
cut, is the senior bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church.
F. NJ. Fonda, superintendent OF the Geor-
gia Central railroad, was accidently shot
and killed.
The jury in the Haddock murder case
! at Sioux City could not agree and were
discharged. They stood IL, to 1 for acquit-
tai.
A large dynamite bomb with burning
fuse attached was found in a room near
the private Office Of the minister of public
| works at Madrid. An employee quenched
the fire and there was no explosion.
The order OF the commits sioners direct.
| ing a closing OF nearly all Replaces OF bus.
mess went into effect last Sunday morning
| April IT. and was generally observed ex.
| eept in few matters upon which publish.
ed interviews indicate difference of opin.
ion between the municipal authorities.
An old law, that had fallen into disuse was
! found which authorized the order of judge
! Mcconnell, the new chief justice OF the Mon.
| tana supreme bench, it is said that he has
! been such terror to liquor sellers in Ten
| nessee that it has won him their everlast.
| ing en1nity.
Winnipeg Special: The Evening Manito-
| ban ceased publication, and will enter the
morning field as the Morning CALL It is
conservative in politics and edited and man.
aged by Acton Barrows. The Free Press,
| Hon. William f. Luxton's paper, has had
a monopoly OF the morning field from it's
inception in 1872.
! Charles F. Renne, the confidential clerk
! OF a Chicago board of trade firm, has been
| confessed his crime, and attributed it to
| losses in speculation.
NJ. Rochefort has violent article in
! L'Intransigeant, directed against the
pope, who, he says, sacrificed France to
Germany in the Chinese mission question
| and is now aiding in the work of German
| izing Alsace-Lorraine. The article con-
| cludes: IF most of our ministers were
not known to fast an Fridays, the govern
ment would answer the insults by recalling
the French ambassador to the vatican
| and suppressing the religious budget"
Fire in the New York Zeitung damaged
$4,000. There is @ suspicion that the
fire is q result OF anarchist enmity.
Jim Bates, notorious desperate, said
to have been the slayer of ten men, who
escaped from prison a few years ago, and
during his temporary freedom has murder
ed two men in cold blood, was found by
Chattanooga officers in the mountains.
He tried to shoot the officers, but they
filed him with buckshot.
A letter from Mr.. Gladstone was received
in Brooklyn in which the ex- premier pass.
es q high eu]ogy on Mr.. Beecher. 1t ie
most cordial in tone, ofconsiderab bile length,
casion to express his qualification at the
| tribute paid him in Mr.. Beechers article
! published in American newspapers some
| time ago, which he had read.
The Philadelphia County Medical socie.
ty has declined to receive another woman,
DR.. Anna Broomall, as a member. Sever.
| al attempts have been made by women to
get into that organization, which seems to
be very attractive to them, butt it is useless.
At Topeka, Mrs. B. Smoot a bride OF
| eight weeks, committed suicide by taking
a dose Of Trough on Rats" She was a
beautiful girl of seventeen years. and her
| act is a mystery. :
Edward Caldwell, on trial for completely
in the murder of Turnkey John Walters, at
Waterloo, N. Y. wac convicted OF murder
in the'second degree, and sentenced to Au,
burn prison for life. Charles johnson, who
| was associated with Caldwell in the crime,
was recently convicted of murder in the
! first degree and sentenced to be hanged
May 26 next.
R. H. Knapp, q prominent real estate
broker and politician OF Augusta, Ga. has
fed the country, having victimized large
| number of people out OF $25, 900:
quest of many influential citizens, has
| vetoed the bill to prohibit stock gambling.
Clark III. Thomas Of Detroit was arrested
on charge of attempting to bribe Walter
C. Cole to kill Charles Davis. Thomas has
policy Of 81, 600 on Davis life. and was
| to give 5000 to have him murdered.
witness secreted under q lounge gave away
the plot. Izse.s ~ ~ ~: ,s&. =
The president has appointed William K.
Alien distr;ctiudge for the Southern district
Of Illinois. I'll 5& z,s4l55-- 49,.
Justice w. B. Woods. of the United States
supreme court, who went to Los Angeles,
Cal, for his health several months ago, lett
for the East considerably improved.
Secretary Lamar files decision in a case
adyersn To, the John Martin umher rom,